xz
General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
Install it with Homebrew
brew install xz- Latest version
- 5.8.4
- Kind
- command-line tool
- Installs (last year)
- 3.4M
- Licence
- 0BSD AND GPL-2.0-or-later
- Homepage
- tukaani.org/xz
Rolling xz out to a company Mac fleet
On a managed fleet, installing a command-line tool is a decision rather than a command. EnterpriseBrew puts that decision in one place: who may install xz, which version they land on, and what is recorded when they do.
- β’ Approve it for everyone, for one team, or for one person β and let developers request it when it isnβt approved yet.
- β’ Hold the fleet on the version it has, so an upgrade lands when you decide rather than when upstream ships.
- β’ See it checked against the best available vulnerability data before it installs, not after the next scan.
- β’ Keep every install in an audit trail: who, which Mac, which version.